The Acorn - Sept. 1, 2024 - OCS Weekly News
| Type of post: | Chorus news item |
| Sub-type: | The Acorn |
| Posted By: | Eva Snapp |
| Status: | Current |
| Date Posted: | Sun, Sep 1 2024 |
1. High Notes
2. Overtures
3. Carol's Cadence
4. Accelerando
5. Major & Minor Moods
Please continue to send prayers, best wishes, and healing vibes to our friends:
- Aug 26: Pretty smooth rehearsal as we narrowed down what songs will be on our holiday program and how we might sing them. (See update below!)
- Sept 2: NO REHEARSAL – Labor Day!! We return Mon, Sept. 9 at 6:45p Mixed & 8p Men’s; 4000 Glenaire Circle, Cary.
- Voluneers Still Needed for NC State Home Football Concessions: This is our most important fund raiser of the year. Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dNxJLkhQRwNSG4sKW_Yu2FLa6rS1fIlxyLr9_j5FVps/edit?usp=sharing
- DUE Sept 9: Last Call for Holiday Quartets?! We have SEVEN quartets now!
2. Overtures
- Reminder on upcoming concerts – just over a month away:
- Sunday, Sept 29 at 3pm, Concert at Preston Pointe in Morrisville.
- Monday, Sept 30 at 7pm (call time 6:30p): Concert at Glenaire (our normal space)
- Keep practicing these numbers for September 29 and 30:
- Almost Like Being in Love
- Where Everybody Knows Your Name
- Here Comes the Sun
- Yesterday
- Ride the Chariot
- Two Less Lonely People
- Over the Rainbow
- Lazy Day
- >>> Adding Mixed Choir for:
- I Didn't Want to Fall
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- I've Got the World on a String
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- You've Got a Friend in Me
- Interested in planning in 2025? Please contact Andy Fuson (fusonandy@gmail.com; 919-847-2797 or cell 919-272-6197).
- Who Might Hire us for a Concert? Do you know of any upcoming community events or a group looking for some entertainment? Contact our Marketing VP Bob Inskeep.
3. Carol's Cadence
- Let’s keep focusing on forward movement through every note and creating an arch with every line of text. You know instinctively which notes and syllables should be highlighted when you speak, so apply the same principles when you sing.
- The following are the songs to focus on for the coming weeks and months. I will have a more specific list for the Sept 9 rehearsal next week.
- Proposed holiday show songs and singers:
- Winter Wonderland – Men
- Songs of Christmas – Men
- Do You Hear What I Hear? – Men
- Christmastime is Here – Men
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Mixed
- White Christmas – Mixed
- Light the Legend – Men
- Sleigh Ride – Men
- Jingle Bells/Christmas Song/Rudolph – Audience Sing-Along
- Holly Jolly Christmas – Mixed & Holiday Chorus
- Gloucestershire Wassail – Mixed & Holiday Chorus
- Mele Kalikimaka – Mixed & Holiday Chorus
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear / Silent Night – Mixed & Holiday Chorus
4. Accelerando
- Sept 2: - NO Rehearsal - Labor Day Holiday
- Sept 29 (Sunday), 3pm: Concert at Preston Pointe in Morrisville.
- Sept 30 (Monday): Concert at Glenaire (our normal space)
- Dec 2 (Monday): Concert at The Cardinal (at North Hills) in ballroom.
- Dec 9 (Monday), 7pm: Concert at Waltonwood on Lake Boone Trail in Raleigh.
- Dec 16 (Monday), 7pm: Concert at Springmoor in north Raleigh.
- Dec 17 (Tuesday), 7:30pm - Christmas Show at Halle Cultural Arts Center in historic downtown Apex. Our big show that will include quartets & the Holiday Chorus.
- Dec 23 (Monday), 7pm - Concert at Whispering Pines in north Raleigh on Leadmine Rd.
5. Major & Minor Moods
Please continue to send prayers, best wishes, and healing vibes to our friends:
- Vern Pike has been dealing with allergy/asthma problems but may start singing with us again in the coming months.
- Jim Murrell’s son, Scott, was scheduled to resume chemo on August 29 and hopes to return to work in October.
- Nic Cols completed his second brain surgery, though he is having trouble speaking or singing.
